Category: Birther

Birther controversy — These are stories related to the Obama birth certificate controversy and Phil Berg, the Montgomery County, Pa. Democrat who started it. Berg was part of the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2008.

Hillary Birthed Birther Movement — Hillary Clinton gave an unpresidential rant in Reno, yesterday, Aug. 25, in which she accused her adversaries of being Ku Klux Klan members and subscribers to conspiracy theories.

Birthers — a dismissive allusion to ‘truthers’ who are those who believe that the Bush administration was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks — cite the unwillingness of President Obama to release the “vault” birth certificate held in Hawaii that would indicate whether his claim as a natural-born citizen was attested to by medical personnel. They also allege that the President is unwilling to release records showing that he applied to Occidental College as a foreign student. They also cite claims by Obama’s Kenyan relatives that he was born in Kenya.

Birthers claim that the President has spent $1 million fighting the release of records that would clear all such questions.

The prime birther was Philip J. Berg of Montgomery County who filed suit in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, Aug. 21, 2008 claiming that Obama was ineligible to be president. Berg is a Democrat who once chaired the Montgomery County Democratic Party and served as a state Deputy Attorney General for eight years.

The lawsuit was dismissed in October by U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick — a former Delaware County Common Pleas Court judge and the estranged brother of judicial reformer Bob Surrick.

Berg took the appeal straight to the Supreme Court which rejected it in December.

President Obama Releases Hawaiian Certificate — President Obama, today, released his Hawaiian certificate of live birth which he had been refraining from doing since concerns were aired in the summer of 2008 regarding his eligibility to hold the office of the Presidency as per Article II of the Constitution.

And the document shows that he was born in Hawaii and hence eligible as he always claimed.

So, Mr. President, why the delay?

Regardless, thank you Mr. President and now we can begin addressing the big issues like $5 per gallon gasoline, the real unemployment rate which as of February was 22 percent, your military goals in Libya and Afghanistan; and our $14 TRILLION debt.

Donald Trump is now demanding that you release your college records, and in the name of leadership, you should probably do that.

I do agree with you, however, that that is not one of the big issues.

Believe me.

Every time I fill up at the pump what I’m thinking about you has nothing to do with your college records.

Natural-Born Bill Would Likely Let O On Ballot — A bill requiring presidential candidates to present proof of natural born citizenship — and other constitutional requirements — in order to be on the Pennsylvania ballot would likely not keep Barack Obama off it.

HB 1350, introduced to the State House of Representatives, April 20, by Daryl Metcalfe (R-12) and 23 others would require candidates for president and vice president of the United States to file with their nomination papers an affidavit attesting that they meet the requirements for the office set forth in section 1 of Article II of the Constitution of the United State and attach documents providing proof.

The constitutional requirements for one to hold the office of president or vice president are that one be a natural born citizen, that one be 35 years of age and that one have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.

Natural born citizen means “a person born within the jurisdiction of a national government”. The certification of live birth that President Obama’s supporters have been touting as proof that he meets this requirement would likely fulfill the requirements of the proposed bill.

And in a sane world it would. The problem is that when prominent Pennsylvania Democrat Philip J. Berg, who had served as a state Deputy Attorney General, filed suit on Aug. 21, 2008 accusing then Sen. Obama of not being eligible to hold the office of president, Obama cited privacy rights and fought tooth-and-nail to prevent what should have been simple corroborating documentation from seeing the light of day.

And so what we have is close to 40 percent of Americans believing that he is a imposter president.

So much for uniting us.

What if Obama had simply shrugged and waived all privacy rights? This, by the way, is what President Bush did regarding claims he had received special treatment for joining the Texas Air National Guard to fulfill service requirements during the Vietnam War.

Presumably, the corroboration would have been found and there would be no controversy. Or perhaps, the original documentation would have been discovered lost which would have still left the vast majority of Americans in acceptance of what was available, since Obama would not have appeared to be hiding something.

As it is now, however, a lot of sane people not inclined to conspiracy theories are starting to wonder.

HB1350, is a nice, safe, vanilla law, which should not be controversial and would probably make government a little better if it were passed but would have no profound impact on anything.

What would be interesting, though, would be for the state to pass a law requiring presidential candidates — heck, make it all candidates for public office — to waive all privacy privileges.

All birth records; all all college transcripts; all employer reviews; all military records (hear that John Kerry?) would be subject to public scrutiny.

Pa. Bill Would Make Obama Prove Natural Born Citizenship —LancasterOnline.Com is reporting that a bill was introduced in the State House yesterday, April 13, that would require presidential candidates to prove that they are natural born citizens of the United States, as required by the U.S. Constitution, before getting on the Pennsylvania ballot.

The bill was drafted byRep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-12)and has 23 co-sponsors according to LancasterOnline. Metcalfe is reported as saying it was drafted in response to the debate regarding President Obama’s birthplace.

One supposes there will be sneering at Metcalfe from the usual suspects but if one sits back, takes a deep breath and considers it, one will wonder why such a bill would be in the least controversial, assuming the bill doesn’t put undue burdens on candidates since the text has yet to be online as of Thursday morning.

Q: You stirred up quite a controversy with your
comments regarding birthers and your plans to release more information
regarding President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. How is that
coming?

A: I got a letter from someone the other day who
was genuinely concerned about it; it is not all just political agenda.
They were talking on Olelo last night about this; it has a political
implication for 2012 that we simply cannot have.

(Abercrombie said there is a recording of the birth in the State Archives and he wants to use that.)

It was actually written I am told, this is what
our investigation is showing, it actually exists in the archives,
written down …

…What I can do, and all I have ever said, is that I am going to see to it as governor that I can verify to anyone who is honest about it that this is the case.

If there is a political agenda then there is nothing I can do about that, nor can the president.

Berg, who had served eight years as Pennsylvania’s deputy attorney general, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, Aug. 21, 2008 claiming that Barack Obama was ineligible to be president because he was born on foreign soil to a foreign parent hence violating the Constitution’s natural born citizen requirement.

Berg was a Hillary Clinton supporter.

Berg’s suit was dismissed in October 2008 by Judge R. Barclay Surrick and rejected by the Supreme Court two months later.

Berg, however, did not go away and the unwillingness by Obama to release documents that would quickly and conclusively put the matter to rest soon started other Americans going hmmmm.

By August 2010, according to a CNN poll, only 42 percent of Americans believe for certain Obama is eligible for the job.

Granted another 29 percent believe he probably is so it hasn’t reached the point of a complete collapse of confidence in government.

Still a wise leader would end the matter as fast as possible and that’s what Abercrombie said he wants to do .

Of course, state law would appear to prevent him from doing so without President Obama’s permission so unless that is obtained a whole lot more people will start going hmmmmmm.

Obama may be the least vetted man to ever hold the office.

Kyle-Anne Shiver of Pajamas Media has published this list of documents that Obama has refused to make public that a man running for the presidency of the United States would be expected to.

1. 1961 long-form, original, signed birth certificate
2. Marriage license between Obama’s father (Barack Sr.) and mother (Stanley Ann Dunham) — not found, not released
3. Obama’s baptism records — sealed
4. Obama’s adoption records — sealed
5. Records of Obama’s and his mother’s repatriation as U.S. citizens on return from Indonesia — not found, not released
6. Name change (Barry Sotero to Barack Hussein Obama) records — not found, not released
7. Noelani Elementary School (Hawaii) — not released
8. Punahou School financial aid or school records — not released
9. Occidental College financial aid records — not released.
10. Columbia College records — not released
11. Columbia senior thesis — not released
12. Harvard Law School records — not released
13. Obama’s law client list — sealed
14. Obama’s files from career as an Illinois state senator — sealed
15. Obama’s record with Illinois State Bar Association — sealed
16. Obama’s medical records — not released
17. Obama’s passport records — not released

For some irony, Obama’s path to the U.S. Senate was cleared when records pertaining to the divorce of Jack Ryan were ordered unsealed against Ryan’s wishes. The information in them created a scandal which forced Ryan from the race.

For Delaware County residents, R. Barclay Surrick is a former county Common Pleas Court judge and the estranged brother of Pennsylvania judicial reformer Bob Surrick .

Montco Dem Proto-Birther Continues Quixotic Quest — Philip J. Berg, truther, birther, former Pennsylvania deputy attorney general and prominent Montgomery County Democrat, has not given up his quest to show that President Obama is not a natural-born citizen and hence ineligible to hold the office.

Birthers — a dismissive allusion to ‘truthers’ who are those who believe that the Bush administration was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks — cite the unwillingness of President Obama to release the “vault” birth certificate held in Hawaii that would indicate whether his claim as a natural-born citizen was attested to by medical personnel. They also allege that the President is unwilling to release records showing that he applied to Occidental College as a foreign student. They also cite claims by Obama’s Kenyan relatives that he was born in Kenya.

Birthers claim that the President has spent $1 million fighting the release of records that would clear all such questions.

The prime birther was Philip J. Berg of Montgomery County who filed suit in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, Aug. 21, 2008 claiming that Obama was ineligible to be president. Berg is a Democrat who once chaired the Montgomery County Democratic Party and served as a state Deputy Attorney General for eight years.

The lawsuit was dismissed in October by U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick — a former Delaware County Common Pleas Court judge and the estranged brother of judicial reformer Bob Surrick.

Berg took the appeal straight to the Supreme Court which rejected it in December.

Berg has his own blog http://www.obamacrimes.com

It should be noted that Berg is an outspoken “truther” and was a Hillary Clinton supporter.